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Dozens killed in landslides in Nepal

Rural regions were completely cut off by floods and landslides, with communications taken out tooAFP/GETTY

Heavy rains have triggered landslides in Nepal, which have left at least 47 people dead and thousands of people homeless.

Another two dozen people are missing, feared dead, after three days of downpours in three southern districts of the country.

Power lines and telephone towers were also destroyed by the rain, which began on Friday and has shown little sign of abating.

Rescue efforts were been severely hampered by the conditions, with roads washed away in many places and traffic on the country’s main east-west highway stopped altogether. In the eastern city of Biratnagar, the airport was closed after the runway was submerged in half a metre of water.

About 31,000 families are believed to have been displaced, with teams of soldiers and police officers…